Religion - "Surrender to God"

When religion was getting staled in hands of those who were thinking themselves god, science came ahead to take the responsibility of enlightening people. This antagonism (see my post Science versus Religion) reached to a point where religion was ousted from every part of life and the maximum liberty provided to it is to follow in rituals. When rage rules our head, it happens that we stop thinking what is just and what is not, what is good for us and what is bad, the only thing we are thinking of is Revenge. So this revenge philosophy declared religion completely needless, pointless, senseless and stupid. However this denial has nothing to do with justice, rationale or science.

God, Who has given us life, has not created us in a deserted place. “Who has made the earth your couch, and the heavens your canopy; and sent down rain from the heavens; and brought forth therewith Fruits for your sustenance (Quran 2:22)” God, who created air, water and food for us, who fulfill all our needs to sustain, grow and develop, how could He left us straying in the search of guidance to live a happy and prosperous life. It is not expected from Him, Who made the earth a beautiful place to live, would not tell us how to keep its beauty

. He did provide His guidance with the beginning of human life on this earth. And as and when the human society grown and complexities in human life evolves, He sent his guidance addressing the needs of mankind.

God brought us as His vicegerent on this earth “Behold, thy Lord said to the angels: "I will create a vicegerent on earth." (Quran 2:30)”. So He gave us a portion of His own qualities; one of the major among these is intelligence. “It is He Who brought you forth from the wombs of your mothers when ye knew nothing; and He gave you hearing and sight and intelligence and affections (Quran 16:78)” But we are not God and so we were prone to use those qualities to harm ourselves without His guidance and this is exactly what happened when we ousted religion from our life. Religion is the guidance for each and every aspect of our life; it is not just to follow the rituals. The fire, the wheel, the dagger, the electiricity, the missiles, the internet or take it for any invention; all was created for the good of human being. Take it away from religious check points and they all will turn to bad for human being. Ousting religion from our life was the worst mistake we committed.

Man is inclined to live freely and don’t want to abide by laws. This choice of freedom was another factor which made the thought of ousting religion pretty appealing to us. But we forgot that freedom from God would only lead us to anarchy. Progress and development does not lie in inventing and creating new resources for human life only, it lies in guided usage of all these resources (be it natural resources or be it invented with the help of natural resources).

The two factors; externally from these dominating groups, and internally our own wishes; are dragging us towards declination of humanity. It is time now to adopt religion in its full context. We’ll have to surrender ourselves to God completely. This is the only option to attain peace, to save humanity, to accomplish progress, to achieve growth and to develop further. “Our Lord! Pour out on us patience and constancy, and take our souls unto thee as surrendered (who bow to thy will)! (Quran 7:126)”.